eclecticism

04/16/2004 |

I didn’t notice this last night when I was poking around with Amazon’s A9 search engine, but Amazon has tied the search results into their Alexa website ranking tool with a little “Site Info” button at the tail end of search result. Part of what Alexa provides along with traffic ranking and site information is the ability to add reviews for the websites, in much the same way that people can post reviews of books, music, or anything else that Amazon sells.

Interesting. No reviews for me (not a surprise), but now that A9 is out and potentially sending more people towards the Alexa info pages, I may need to keep an eye out on that just to see if any pop up.

What did amuse me while looking at the info that Alexa has for Eclecticism is their graph of my traffic ranking:

p align=”center”> Eclecticism traffic spike

Gee — can you tell when I got Slashdotted?

iTunes: “Pick Up the Phone” by Swingerhead from the album Swing This, Baby! (1998, 3:07).

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2 Responses to “Alexa website reviews”

Chas Redmond Says:
April 16th, 2004 at 10:49 pm

well, should have checked earlier, but posted an update to my blog at 3:26 pm today and when I checked - piqued by your entry - A9 had already indexed me. That’s a fast spider. I’ll have to be more observant the next post and see how long A9’s little bot takes to troll the net. Not unamazing, in fact somewhat expected given Google’s technology, but a little bit too clairvoyant for some. It’s true - there is no privacy anymore - get over the notion.

anyway, if those stats are accurate then you’re still in orbit - congrats!

Ryan Waddell Says:
April 17th, 2004 at 6:51 am

Wooo, that is so dang cool. I’m at the 699,364 for my ranking… not all THAT bad, all things considered… I was up in the 500’s at some point, probably because I was talking about Nicole Richie so damn much… hehehe